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I've asked this question twice with no answer; and I'm going to ask
it again !

With DR DOS loaded and about 620 Kb free, CAN YOU RUN WINDOWS 3.0 in
386 ENHANCED MODE ? If NOT, than it is just TOO BAD, and looks like
DR misses the boat again.

> Mark Aitchison, Physics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. wrote .....
>
> I personally think it is the responsibility of the operating system to
> recognise the extra memory, quite apart from the slight efficiency gains in
> putting such stuff into the o/s rather than an add-on product. This isn't to
> say these products aren't wonderful, rather Microsoft has been dragging its
> feet (in my humble opinion) for too long.
>
I agree completely (also that Microsoft was dragging their feet).
However, there's a distinction between theoretical/academic computer
science and practical/real-world computer science. Basically, in my
opinion, IBM PC and MS-DOS provides an environment where all the sins
in computer science were committed  :-). The BIOS is too slow, so people
pokes the hardware directly. The OS is a dog so people patched and hack
it to speed.

BUT ! MS-DOS become the standard and CP/M-86 is forgotten. In fact,
I thought CP/M was much better designed than MS-DOS. It is re-entrant
and task switching overhead is low. BUT ! Like I said, they missed the
boat because they are not MS-DOS compatible. Now, the world is jumping
on the Windows 3.0 platform. Is DR DOS going to miss the boat again ?

Anybody want to supply the answer ?


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